John McAslan & Partners, Farshid Moussavi and Mecanoo have been shortlisted for a competition to design a museum and educational centre in Moscow.

Massimiliano Fuksas and 3XN also got through to the second stage of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum competition. Each is teamed with a Russian practice.

Moscow Polytechnic Museum is one of the largest in the world and one of the oldest technical museums in Russia.

The Polytechnic Museum Development Foundation wants to create a modern 35,000sq m museum and educational centre for demonstrating scientific and technological discoveries using multimedia technologies.

The new museum will be built on a 1ha plot at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The shortlisted teams, who each receive €30,000, will now be invited to visit the museum and asked to produce an architectural concept design.